Himalayan Anthropology : : The Indo-Tibetan Interface / / ed. by James F. Fisher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• MitwirkendeR: ALLEN, N. J.,; ARDUSSI, JOHN,; BENNETT, LYNN,; BERREMAN, GERALD D.,; BHARATI, AGEHANANDA,; BISTA, DOR BAHADUR,; CAPLAN, A. PATRICIA,; DOHERTY, VICTOR S.,; EKVALL, ROBERT B.,; EPSTEIN, LAWRENCE,; FISHER, JAMES F.,; FOURNIER, ALAN,; FÜRER-HAIMENDORF, CHRISTOPH VON,; GOLDSTEIN, MELVYN C.,; GOODALL, MERRILL R.,; GREENWOLD, STEPHEN MICHAEL,; HITCHCOCK, JOHN T.,; HÖFER, ANDRÁS,; ISHII, HIROSHI,; JACKSON, ANTHONY,; JEST, CORNEILLE,; MESSERSCHMIDT, DONALD A.,; MILLER, BEATRICE D.,; MOODEY, RICHARD W.,; NAKANE, CHIE,; NITZBERG, FRANCES L.,; ORTNER, SHERRY B.,; PETER PRINCE OF GREECE AND DENMARK,,; RAHA, MANIS KUMAR,; ROSE, LEO E.,; SCHMIDT, RUTH L.,; SHAHRANI, M. NAZIF,; SIIGER, H.,; Stablein, William,; TOFFIN, GÉRARD,; TRUNGPA, CHÖGYAM,
• HerausgeberIn: Fisher, James F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©1978
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: Reprint 2011
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (567 p.) :; 4 maps. 14 plates.

Table of Contents

• I-IV
• General Editor's Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction
• SECTION ONE General Issues
• Fourfold Classifications of Society in the Himalayas
• Kinship and Culture in the Himalayan Region
• Cultural Implications of Tibetan History
• Homo hierarchicus Nepalensis: A Cultural Subspecies
• Hierarchy or Stratification? Two Case Studies from Nepal and East Africa
• Himalayan Research: What, Whither, and Whether
• SECTION TWO The South Asian Perspective
• Actual and Ideal Himalayas: Hindu Views of the Mountains
• Stratification and Religion in a Himalayan Society
• Changing Patterns of Multiethnic Interaction in the Western Himalayas
• An Additional Perspective on the Nepali Caste System
• Maiti-Ghar: The Dual Role of High Caste Women in Nepal
• Dhikurs: Rotating Credit Associations in Nepal
• The Role of the Priest in Sunuwar Society
• A New Rural Elite in Central Nepal
• Nepalis in Tibet
• Modernizing a Traditional Administrative System: Sikkim 1890-1973
• Bureaucracy and Bureaucrats: A Few Themes Drawn from the Nepal Experience
• SECTION THREE The Central Asian Perspective
• The Retention of Pastoralism among the Kirghiz of the Afghan Pamirs
• Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device
• The White-Black Ones: The Sherpa View of Human Nature
• Tibetan Oracles
• Some Aspects of Pön
• Tibetan Bon Rites in China: A Case of Cultural Diffusion
• The Saintly Madman in Tibet
• Trans-Himalayan Traders in Transition
• Tibetan Communities of the High Valleys of Nepal: Life in an Exceptional Environment and Economy
• Tibetan Culture and Personality: Refugee Responses to a Culture-Bound TAT
• Εthnogenesis and Resource Competition among Tibetan Refugees in South India: A New Face to the Indo-Tibetan Interface
• The "Abominable Snowman": Himalayan Religion and Folklore from the Lepchas of Sikkim
• SECTION FOUR Perspectives Merged: The Newars
• Notes on the Origins of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal
• Symbolic Fields in Nepalese Religious Iconography: A Preliminary Investigation
• Intercaste Relations in a Newar Community
• The Role of the Priest in Newar Society
• Structure and Change of a Newari Festival Organization
• A Descriptive Analysis of the Content of Nepalese Buddhist Pūjās as a Medical-Cultural System with References to Tibetan Parallels
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects